Bulletin Archive

A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing Paul J. Silvia. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 2007; 149 pp; ISBN: 987-1-59147-743-3, paper $14.95 us. All students and professors need to write, and many struggle to finish their stalled dissertations, journal articles, […]

Researcher Russel Ogden was told in 2006 by Kwantlen officials not to attend at an assisted suicide. Criminologist Russel Ogden has been told by the administration at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in Surrey, B.C., that he must stop his research on […]

The New Brunswick Government is trying a second time to introduce major changes to its post-secondary education system. Premier Shawn Graham unveiled a new action plan in the summer, based on a report released several weeks earlier by the working […]

Two big issues facing post-secon­dary education are funding and how that funding is allocated. Although post-secondary educa­tion is a provincial responsibility, the federal government plays an important role in funding. In the mid-1960s the federal government initiated a system of […]

What is it about Wikipedia? It didn’t exist in 2001. Not so long ago, it was just an obscure website full of biographies of sports fig­ures and esoteric details about TV shows such as Star Trek. But now it is […]

York University agrees to move forward on committee recommendations to improve free expression on campus. [Photo: York University] A CAUT ad hoc investigatory committee has completed its three-year investigation into allegations of threats to freedom of expression at York University […]

CAUT has given its 2008 J.H. Stewart Reid Memorial Fellowship to University of Toronto PhD student Jonathan Crane. Jonathan Crane, a University of Toronto student completing a PhD in Modern Jewish Thought, has been chosen for this year’s Ste­wart Reid […]

BUFA president Bruce Forrest (left) & vice-president Dennis Oleson on the picket lines in Brandon. Academic staff at Brandon University were on the picket lines Sept. 29 after talks with the admin­istration broke down earlier in the month. Faculty association […]

Hundreds of Israeli academics have signed a petition calling on their government to support academic freedom in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip by removing blockades and checkpoints impeding access to institutions of higher learning. “It is clear there […]

CAFA award winners — Claude Couture & Diane Conrad. The Confederation of Alberta Faculty Associations honored two University of Alberta faculty members during a special ceremony Sept. 18 in Edmonton. Claude Couture, a professor of social sciences and Canadian studies […]

Le chercheur Russel Ogden s'est vu interdire en 2006 par la direction de Kwantleen de participer à tout acte d’aide à la mort. Le criminologue Russel Ogden s’est vu enjoindre par la direction de l’Université polytechnique Kwantlen, établie à Surrey […]

Le secteur de l’éducation postsecondaire est confronté aux deux grands enjeux que sont les sources et les mécanismes de financement. Bien que ce secteur soit du ressort des provinces, le gouvernement fé­d­é­ral n’en joue pas moins un rôle im­portant dans […]